Stephen Porter returns to the Library with a program that includes three pieces by Clara Schumann, Claude Debussy's Images Books I and II, and a new work by Andrew List, composer and Professor of Composition at Berklee School of Music.

Pianist Stephen Porter has performed internationally as a soloist at venues that include the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, the Gothenburg Academy of Music and Drama in Sweden, the Sala Villa-Lobos at the University of Rio de Janeiro, Albert Long Hall in Istanbul, LSO St. Luke’s with the Amadeus Orchestra of London, Sarajevo as the featured soloist of the Bosnia International Music Festival, the Malmö Academy of Music in Sweden, and the Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio, Italy.  This fall he gave recitals at the Bangalore International Centre in India and Music Salon Emmanuel in Singapore. He is a six-time artist resident of the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and since 2021 has been Artist in Residence and Research Artist at Texas A&M University Central Texas. Mr. Porter has performed and recorded with two Grammy Award winning musicians, bass-baritone Dashon Burton and mezzo-soprano Krista River. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and the New England Conservatory of Music. His primary teachers were Peter Takacs, Jacob Maxin, and Paul Doguereau, a protégé of Ravel.